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Mesh

 

Fortress provides two mesh technologies, MicroMesh™ and MacroMesh™. MicroMesh is included as a primary feature in the base ES520. MicroMesh provides the self-forming and self-healing capabilities core to any mesh architecture. MicroMesh is designed to support fixed infrastructure or portable networks.

 

MacroMesh is designed to support large, dynamic networks with more emphasis on mobility and scalability. MacroMesh offers significant advantages over MicroMesh in terms of scalability and resiliency, which is particularly important in highly mobile environments. MacroMesh is also implemented in the Fortress software client, providing the ability to utilize not only network infrastructure devices but also user input devices such as laptops, tablets and handheld PDA’s clients to forward data and operate as part of the mesh network. These input devices can use MacroMesh to form their own ad-hoc mesh networks as well.

 

Fortress MacroMesh possesses attributes of scalability, mobility, low overhead and dynamic self-configuration and self-administration that are unique.

 

MacroMesh supports:

  • Large scale networks (thousands of nodes)
  • Highly mobile networks - including ‘fast mover’ nodes
  • Extremely low bandwidth networks
  • Networks spanning sensors, vehicles, aircraft and fixed wired installations
  • Regardless of network size, less than 5% of bandwidth is needed for control traffic

 

All current self forming, self-healing networks are extremely limited in size and their ability to organize mobile networks. This fundamental problem exists because the amount of control bandwidth required to keep the network ‘whole’ grows at an exponential rate with network size. This means that by the time even a small mesh network is deployed it requires all of the available bandwidth just to maintain itself.

 

Fortress MacroMesh overcomes this serious problem. Regardless of network size, or network bandwidth Fortress MacroMesh will use less than 5% of available bandwidth.

 

Mesh